10-14-13 ~Resizing a coat

Before

After

After, pt 2

This coat was originally for the My Twinn dolls, but as I'm downsizing my My Twinn Collection (by almost all of my Twinns, the only one I'm having a hard time deciding yay or nay on is Tara, pictured in the Before pic), and since I LOVE this coat, I wanted to fix it so my American Girl dolls can wear it easily.

To make it work for the American girl dolls, I took a little fabric from a little above the elbow and stitched it to the shoulder. I then gathered the shoulders to make them smaller, and then I ran a gathering stitch just under the collar to shorten the shoulders a bit more. I also stitched the collar down a little bit to hide the gathering under the collar. And now it fits. :D